Artist: Placebo

Album: Battle For The Sun (Jun 9, 2009)

There is more than one artist with this name: 1) A popular Alternative rock band from London, England which formed in 1994. 2) A Belgian jazz rock band active in the 1970's 3) A short-lived Canadian punk band from the early 90's 4) A short-lived British underground post-punk duo 1) The British band was founded when former Luxembourg schoolmates Brian Molko and Stefan Olsdal - who never actually spoke to each other - met by accident at South Kensington, London, United Kingdom tube station in 1994. Molko invited Olsdal to one of his gigs and Olsdal was impressed by Molko's vocals so they agreed on forming a band. While briefly known as Ashtray Heart, the band quickly settled on the name Placebo, after the drug that has no active ingredient but works because the

Albums: Battle for the sun, In A Funk, The Hut Recordings, Once More With Feeling, Because I Want You, Meds, Sleeping With Ghosts, Sleeping with ghosts & Covers, Black Market Music, Debut, Without You Im Nothing, Black Maket Music, SleepingWithGhosts, Covers, Acoustic, Running Up That Hill, Live At iTunes Festival, Battle For The Sun

Tags: Rock, Indie, Alternative, Alternative Rock, Britpop, 2009, Placebo